Lead Frontend Engineer

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Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Senior level
eCommerce • Fintech • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Role
The Lead Frontend Engineer will build foundational frontend infrastructure and enhance developer productivity. Responsibilities include architecting engineering initiatives, collaborating with teams, and ensuring best practices in code quality. The role demands expertise in React.js, CI/CD systems like Docker and Kubernetes, and a strong sense of ownership in project execution.
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Razorpay was founded by Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur in 2014. Razorpay is building a new-age digital banking hub (Neobank) for businesses in India with the mission is to enable frictionless banking and payments experiences for businesses of all shapes and sizes. What started as a B2B payments company is processing billions of dollars of payments for lakhs of businesses across India. 

We are a full-stack financial services organisation, committed to helping Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative payment and business banking solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment and banking journey for any business. Over the past year, we've disbursed loans worth millions of dollars in loans to thousands of businesses. In parallel, Razorpay is reimagining how businesses manage money by simplifying business banking (via Razorpay X) and enabling capital availability for businesses (via Razorpay Capital). 

The Role:

The Lead Frontend Engineer at Razorpay strives to build solid frontend foundations, infrastructure, and top-notch experiences. You also work towards developer productivity and platform tooling to solve for developer experience. You are expected to contribute to Product and Design ideas and Implement them as your own product. We value everyone’s input. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Architect and implement various engineering initiatives, like tooling, config-driven systems, common libraries, etc.
  • Collaborate with managers, designers, and other teams, and lead the initiatives of the team.
  • Strong knowledge of React.js and bundling tools like Webpack, Rollup, etc.
  • Understanding of CI / CD toolchain: Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Own and drive our dashboards to make them robust & modular.
  • Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership towards execution and delivery while providing clear mentorship and direction to the team.
  • Open to work on constructive feedback and proactively shares the same with peers.
  • Can work independently and go from zero to productive in a few weeks.

Mandatory Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of strong experience in helping building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products
  • You’re awesome at JavaScript and web concepts, driven by metrics and performance, and believe in test-driven development.
  • You evangelize and establish best practices within and across the teams.
  • You keep up-to-date with the latest trends, learn new concepts, or contribute to open-source projects and would be eager to talk about ideas in internal or external forums.
  • You can share ideas and opinions with Product managers and Designers from an engineering lens.
  • You have knowledge of microservices architecture.

Good to have:

We also expect the following, but we accept that you can be an absolutely great developer without fulfilling the below. So go ahead and apply even if the following isn’t applicable:

  • Have a few weekend side-projects up on GitHub
  • Have contributed to an open-source project
  • Have worked at a product company
  • Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language

Location: Bangalore

Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesn't discriminate on gender, religion, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, age, etc. We welcome interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe.

 

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Top Skills

JavaScript
The Company
HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
3,200 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Power your finance, grow your business.
Razorpay is India’s first full-stack financial solutions company. We are on a mission to enhance the payment experience of over 300 million end consumers. And in doing so, we aim to enable Indian businesses - big and small - accept payments digitally with minimal effort and maximum ease.

Razorpay has grown from being a payment gateway provider to a solutions-driven organization boasting of an extensive products suite to accept and disburse payments as well as raise capital and park money. In a nutshell, we fit into every nook and corner where your business touches money.

#OutgrowOrdinary
We identify ourselves as disruptors in the digital payments space and our vision is to power the financial ecosystem for other disruptors. Like attracts like and Razorpay actively looks to partner with established companies and startups that have either broken the glass ceiling in their industry or are set to.

The Razorpay Product Suite today comprises verticals, along with Payment Gateway, like Payment Links, Payment Pages, Subscriptions, Smart Collect, Route, Razorpay Capital, RazorpayX, Payroll and Thirdwatch.

Razorpay was started in 2014 by two IIT Roorkee alumni, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar. Just a short few years later, Razorpay has evolved into a 800-odd strong organization with some of the best talents in the country helping some of the best companies manage their money movement seamlessly.

Certified cool
We are a bunch of spirited, ambitious and fun folks. And no, we’re not saying this ourselves--leading institutions have recognized Razorpay for the high trust and high-performance culture that we maintain.

Our strength lies in the people we are and we go to great lengths to nurture a family of coders, designers, sellers, marketers, analysts, writers, runners, photographers, gamers, tinkerers, and above all, people who are dreamers and doers at the same time. Be a part of our exciting journey.

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